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I think that is a big attraction of them. :) They are either like druids, an alt healer with funky different powers than the standard magical knight Templar cleric or they are like weird specialist wizards with fairly different themed magic and abilities. They can be designed for either role or...

I have played my eponymous character in multiple campaigns. My first transition was taking him from the original hometown AD&D game he was in into the college one I joined which had an Elric type of multiverse and the DM had no problem having my character sail in on his spelljammer though Dream...

I generally allow in lots but some specific exclusions for specific games. Nobody in my 5e games have asked for 3rd party stuff, I would evaluate that on a case by case basis. The closest was somebody wanting to use the UA playtest artificer which had a librarian build that I allowed with a...

Not them but for me I am only about 240 pages into my read through of the 400 page 2024 PH, and I don't have the new DMG or MM. I just finished the A spells last night, it is a long book and I have about a hundred more pages of spells to go through. :) I feel I have a decent handle on the 24...

That was in late 1e with stuff like Oriental Adventure, the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and the Wilderness Survival Guide. Besides kits the big unique mechanics for me was the specialty priests.

That seems to mostly have been taken up by adding AD&D options for B/X systems, originally in the advanced Labyrinth Lord supplement and later in Advanced OSE. So you can have B/X style dwarven clerics or a B/X paladin or adding in AD&D style demons and devils. Keeps the simplicity of B/X rules...

The Book of Adventuring 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Monster: ? Evil Undead: ? Powerful Undead, Major Threat: ? Fearsome Foe: ? Frightening Creature: ? Horrific Creature: ? Disgusting Creature: ? Ghost, Powerful Undead, Major Threat: ? Ghoul: ? Truly Terrible Lich, Powerful Undead, Major...

I put in one. I know a lot of the rules in core 14 and Tasha’s and such and I am comfortable adding in stuff like 4e skill challenges or turning a 5e monster into a 4e style elite or solo and making stuff up that works in 5e, but I look core rules up all the time for specifics. All the time...

Me too. Powers cost points depending on their power levels and can be upcast for more points. Sits comfortably alongside the vancian casting system. Also has lots of non-point options with things like the psionic focus mechanic so it is not necessarily limited to just points.

My guess, purely a guess, is that it was a fairly gamist design choice to make a really majorly (but not completely) spell immune monster to drive it more to the Kolchak blessed crossbow bolt solution. You can kill them with +3 or better weapons or the top tier metero swarm or wish spells, but...

Tradition! 2e's Monstrous Compendium 1: 1e MM:

Terrors of the Dead Lands 3.5 Ashen: An ashen is a defiler that died consumed by life energy kept for too long without discharging. The bliss of life energy coursing through one’s body proves too addictive to some defilers with low self-control. They do not fight the addiction hard, letting it...

I was happy with that when they did it and when Pathfinder did the same thing with further refinements for the same CR. I was quite happy, for instance, with pathfinder changing the CR 3 allip to wisdom damage instead of drain at that CR. I also liked buffing the toughness of demons as physical...

? 3e (and similarly 5e) PCs have max hp at 1st level unlike 0D&D, Basic, or AD&D. Basic and OD&D also had smaller PC HD. 3e (and similarly 5e) monsters have con bonuses (and in 3e potential toughness feat, or construct/ooze bonus hp) and skeletons and zombies in 3e have d12 HD unlike 0D&D...

I only got Planescape stuff way after the 2e era (Greyhawk and Ravenloft were my 2e foci in the 90s) but I borrowed MC8 from a friend when he got it when it came out and I loved the lore development for the fiends and the Blood War. 1e had fun demon lords and archdevils with very cool art, but...

So I am playing in an online weekly game that has been going on for about a year. In Friday's game an NPC from a group who are asking for our help and discretion casually outed me as a sorcerer to the rest of the party thinking everybody already knew and were cool with it. It is a secret I have...

It was 2e but earlier than Planescape and generally earlier era 2e. The 2e Monstrous Compendium Appendix 8 came out in January 1991, predating Planescape by three years. 2e came out in 89 so two years into 2e's eleven year run.